We welcome the Constitutional Court order issued this afternoon that provides for the local government elections to take place before the 1 November 2021. This preserves the supremacy of the constitution. We also welcome the setting aside of the Minister of COGTA’s promulgation of the election date. This promulgation took place without a final voter registration weekend, which was meant to take place on 31 July and 1 August 2021.09.03

Brett Herron, the Mayoral candidate for GOOD and former Mayoral Committee Member responsible for the City’s Environmental Department, this week kicked of Arbour week by planting a tree at the Bothasig Public Clinic. This clinic provides free healthcare services to homed and unhomed people living in the area and once had a vegetable garden that was providing food for the clinic’s kitchen.

Land Affairs expert Advocate Ngcukaitobi has come out in support of the Expropriation Bill and against the need for amending Section 25 of the Constitution. Ngcukaitobi is reported to have said that the process to consider amending Section 25 of the Constitution “is a monumental waste of time. If the ANC wants serious progress on land, what it should do right now is to pass the Expropriation Bill.”

The GOOD party notes reports of a fatal car accident involving Nelson Mandela Bay Executive Mayor, Nqaba Bhanga, and two bystanders who sadly lost their lives. A third bystander is currently in hospital recovering from their injuries. We extend our deepest condolences to the affected families and believe that a full investigation into the circumstances leading up to this accident must be forthcoming. Innocent people lost their lives and the people of Nelson Mandela Bay need to satisfy themselves that their Mayor is not responsible for this tragedy. Specifically, this inquest must look into: - Whether this accident occurred past curfew and if so, what official business the Mayor was conducting at those hours. - Whether or not Cllr Bhanga was in possession of procurement documents which would be unlawful. As a public official, we are sure Cllr Bhanga is aware of the illegality pertaining to the possesion of procurement documents. In addition to being a sitting Mayor, Cllr Bhanga was announced just this week as the DA Mayoral Candidate for Nelson Mandela Bay and the voters deserve to know the truth about who they are being asked to vote for. We wish Cllr Bhanga a successful surgery and speedy recovery so he may satisfy the people of Nelson Mandela Bay that he was not acting unlawfully at the time of this accident. A full investigation would unearth answers to the burning questions that the people of Nelson Mandela Bay have.

by all good South Africans. But unless the people who ordered the hit are brought to book Deokaran’s courage in speaking out to stop the rot of corruption will have been in vain.

The Department of Social Development is mandated to ensure the provision of a comprehensive social development service that enables and empowers the poor, the vulnerable and those with special needs. These services are important protect, and repairs, our social fabric and especially ensure that those residents who are vulnerable, excluded and most in need of social assistance are in fact assisted.

While the State’s promise to act quickly against 12 identified instigators appears to have vanished into thin air, the GOOD Party is doing what it can to keep the investigation into the storm of violence and looting in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng in July on track. After contacting the police in early August to hand over information contained on three Whatsapp groups evidently formed to instigate the anarchy in KwaZulu-Natal, GOOD Party Secretary-General Brett Herron has deposed a second affidavit relating to alleged instigators in Gauteng.